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Article Dans Une Revue Historia. Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte Année : 2022

Early Greek Catapults and ‘First-Generation Artillery Towers’

Thierry Lucas

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This article is intended to offer a discussion on the origins of the catapult in the Greek world. The discussion focusses on one problematic point, non-torsion artillery and its distribution. There are good reasons to think that such early catapults remained a kind of experimental weapon; it is only after the invention of torsion artillery, i. e. after the middle of the fourth century BC, that the catapult became a common weapon, widespread throughout the Greek world. As a result, the study calls into question the typology of artillery towers defined by Ober and its chronological implications.
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hal-03613065 , version 1 (16-01-2023)

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Thierry Lucas. Early Greek Catapults and ‘First-Generation Artillery Towers’. Historia. Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 2022, 71 (2), pp.130-149. ⟨10.25162/historia-2022-0005⟩. ⟨hal-03613065⟩

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